Charles Binet-Sanglé
Charles Hippolyte Louis Jules Binet | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 July 1868 Clamecy, France |
| Died | 14 November 1941 (aged 73) Nice, France |
| Occupations | Physician, psychologist |
| Notable work | La Folie de Jésus Le Haras humain |
| Awards | Legion of Honour |
Charles Binet-Sanglé (4 July 1868 – 14 November 1941) was a French military doctor and psychologist, who notably was the first to broadly and thoroughly question the mental health of Jesus, which he did in his four-volume work La Folie de Jésus.[1] It sparked controversy and particularly affected conservative Christians.[2] Albert Schweitzer, among others, referred to this work in his medical dissertation Die psychiatrische Beurteilung Jesu: Darstellung und Kritik (The Psychiatric Study of Jesus: Exposition and Criticism, 1913). Schweitzer writes in his booklet Out of My Life and Thoughts,[3] referring to Charles Binet-Sanglé and other authors dealing with the mental health of Jesus:
Now I had to complete a year of practical work as an intern in the hospitals and to write my thesis for the doctorate. As my subject I chose a critical review of all that had been published about the mental illness from which Jesus was supposed to have suffered. In the main I was concerned with the works of De Loosten, William Hirsch, and Binet-Sangle. In my studies on the life of Jesus I had documented that he lived in the world of contemporary Judaic thought, which seems fantastic to us now, with the expectation of the end of the world and the appearance of a supernatural Messianic Kingdom. I was immediately reproached for making Him a visionary, or even a person under the sway of delusions. Now my task was to decide whether, from a medical standpoint, this peculiar Messianic consciousness of His was in any way bound up with some psychic disturbance.
— (p. 107)
His other most influential work, Le Haras Humain (The Human Stud-Farm), suggested that euthanasia was necessary in some cases, and that a eugenic institute must be founded to encourage education of the improvement for the human race.[4] The book was heavily censored in France.[5]
He was decorated Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1912 and promoted Officer of the same order in 1922.[6]
Notes
- ^ Binet-Sanglé, Charles (1908–1915). La folie de Jésus [The Madness of Jesus] (in French). Vol. 1–4. Paris: A. Maloine. LCCN 08019439. OCLC 4560820.
- ^ Havis, Don (April–June 2001). "An Inquiry into the Mental Health of Jesus: Was He Crazy?". Secular Nation. Minneapolis: Atheist Alliance Inc. ISSN 1530-308X. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
- ^ Schweitzer, Albert (1998). Out of My Life and Thoughts. Translated by Lemke, Antje Bultmann. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-6097-3.
- ^ Ash, Mitchell G. (2008). "Marius Turda, Paul J. Weindling (Editors). "Blood and Homeland": Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900–1940. ix + 467 pp., figs., index. Budapest/New York: Central European University Press, 2007. $54.95 (cloth)". Isis. 99 (3): 644–645. doi:10.1086/593266. ISSN 0021-1753.
- ^ "Résumés de mémoires de Master Recherche - Universités de Bordeaux 2, Nancy 1 et Paris 11, 2009-2010". Revue d'Épidémiologie et de Santé Publique. 59 (1): 62–65. 2011. doi:10.1016/j.respe.2010.12.008. ISSN 0398-7620.
- ^ "Dossier de Légion d'honneur de Charles Binet". Ministère de la Culture (in French). Archived from the original on 2023-07-15.
External links
- Binet-Sanglé, Charles (1901). "Le crime de suggestion religieuse et sa nouvelle prophylaxie socjale" [The crime of religious suggestion and its new social prophylaxis]. Histoire de la Folie. Archives d'anthropologie criminelle et de médecine légale, 16th year, n°95 (in French). Paris. pp. 453–473. Retrieved May 13, 2024.