Baron, Anne-Marie <br/><br/>
The miracles of medicine in Balzac: 

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<br/><br/> Just as the medical metaphor is always associated with Jesus, the Christ metaphor is associated with Balzac’s doctors, such as Bianchon, Benassis, and Desplein. Their miracles, whose theatrical dimension is emphasized by Balzac, are para-psychic performances, seemingly magical, but influenced by magnetism, hypnosis, or the simple charisma of doctors like Halpersohn. Balzac analyzes them with an intuition that makes him the precursor of psychopathology or psychoanalysis.