ABSTRACT
The central ®gure in House the TV medical series, Dr Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), is a type whose personality can be sourced in various cultures whether on a conscious or an unconscious level. He is a wounded healer, a hero, and a scapegoat. Jungian parlance would also place him as a trickster, or else as a puer aeternus, as is explored elsewhere in this volume. The actor playing a character constituted by these varieties of elemental cultural forms must dodge and swerve to fashion a presentable, plausible personality.
