house is all id, impulse and reckless behavior and selfishness, and wilson is all superego, overthinking and moral judgement and selflessness, and together they act as the other's ego. house wants to biopsy a patient to stop his own pain, wilson tells him he's going to cross a line if he does. wilson wants to tell the world how he's justified the taboo of euthanasia, house steps in to tell him he'll ruin his life if he does. ultimately, this is why they fall apart when separated from each other, why wilson is miserable when he tries to cope with amber's death without house.
wilson will always try to be more selfish, to care less, wish that he was more like house, and house will always wish the inverse, that he is capable of caring as deeply as wilson does, that his own empathy ran as deep as wilson's. but in the end, they are both incapable of embodying those traits they admire in the other on their own. they can only truly function together.
this is the point in the show, for me, where it becomes clear that house and wilson have been set up as star-crossed lovers. it's only here, in 8 x 21, that they both accept fully who they are to each other. they have both accepted that they will only be able to be happy together, that only through acknowledging how they complete each other will either of them be able to be fulfilled in life. the tragedy is that they have only been able to find life at death. the price for their happiness together is the looming inevitability of wilson's death
anyways. rest in peace sigmund freud you would’ve loved analyzing house md yaoi
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twin fantasy (csh, 2018) / reflektor (arcade fire, 2013) web weave
we are put on this earth solely to identify patterns and boy am i identifying the shit out of these patterns. guarantee there are more parallels between these two albums about parallelism but i haven't found them yet
orpheus and eurydice (auguste rodin, 1893) / famous prophets (stars), car seat headrest / awful sound (oh eurydice), arcade fire / a photo of will toledo from the music video for nervous young inhumans / supersymmetry, arcade fire / famous prophets (stars), car seat headrest / egyptian tapestry roundel with orpheus and apollo, 5th–6th century CE / famous prophets (stars), car seat headrest / reflektor, arcade fire / cover for twin fantasy / famous prophets (stars), car seat headrest / awful sound (oh eurydice), arcade fire / promotional material for reflektor / twin fantasy (those boys), car seat headrest / it's never over (hey orpheus), arcade fire / orpheus and eurydice (auguste rodin, 1893)
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