Abstract

Hypermodern discourse transforms the symptom into a disorder, and in so doing the real is treated out of sense by biochemistry, by medications that are more and more targeted. This work analyzes the way in which the series House M.D. allows us to scrutinize the contemporary logic in the treatment of bodies. What do contemporary subjects request from the medical discourse? Where does House fail and where does he succeed in his treatment of his patient Eve? Where does the medical discourse of the Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital fail in the treatment of its “patient House”? Based on these three
pivotal questions a conjecture is offered regarding a Lacanian inflexion of House’s position.

Key words: Medicine | House | Doctor-patient relationship | Lacan