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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458964603321

Titolo

House : the wounded healer on television : Jungian and post-Jungian reflections / / edited by Luke Hockley and Leslie Gardner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-89086-6

1-283-04384-X

9786613043849

0-203-84033-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GardnerLeslie <1949->

HockleyLuke

Disciplina

791.45/75

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Diagnosing House. Doctoring individuation : Gregory House, physician, detective or shaman? / Luke Hockley -- The physician's melancholia / John Izod -- Playing House : Convincing them of what you know simply by who you are / Christopher Hauke -- Consulting House. House's Caduceus crutch / Terrie Waddell --  Anatomy of genius : inspiration through banality and boring people / Lucy Huskinson -- Limping the way to wholeness : wounded feeling and feeling wounded / Angela Cotter -- Our inner puer and its playmates, the shadow and the trickster / Sally Porterfield -- Dissecting House. House not Ho(l)mes / Susan Rowland -- Gestures of excess: an exploratory analysis of melodrama as a collective archetype / Leslie Gardner -- Not as a Stranger / John Beebe -- I feel like a failure- in-house feminism / Catriona Miller.

Sommario/riassunto

House 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