Description
Book SynopsisHouse MD is a globally successful and long-running medical drama. House: The Wounded Healer on Television employs a Jungian perspective to examine the psychological construction of the series and its namesake, Dr Gregory House.
The book also investigates the extent to which the continued popularity of House MD has to do with its representation of deeply embedded cultural concerns. It is divided into three parts - Diagnosing House, Consulting House and Dissecting House, - and topics of discussion include:
- specific details, themes, motifs and tropes throughout the series
- narrative, character and visual structure
- the combination of performative effects, text and images of the doctor and his team
- the activities of the hero, the wounded healer and the puer aeternus.
Offering an entirely fresh perspective on House MD, with contributions from medical professionals,
Table of Contents
Introduction. Part I: Diagnosing House. Hockley, Doctoring Individuation: Gregory House, Physician, Detective or Shaman? Izod, The Physician’s Melancholia. Hauke, Playing House: Convincing Them of What You Know Simply by Who You Are. Part II: Consulting House. Waddell, House’s Caduceus Crutch. Huskinson, Anatomy of Genius: Inspiration Through Banality and Boring People. Cotter, Limping the Way to Wholeness: Wounded Feeling and Feeling Wounded. Porterfield, Our Inner Puer and its Playmates, the Shadow and the Trickster. Part III: Dissecting House. Rowland, House Not Ho(l)mes. Gardner, Gestures of Excess: An Exploratory Analysis of Melodrama as a Collective Archetype. Beebe, Not as a Stranger. Miller, I Feel Like a Failure – In-House Feminism.
