| " Other examples [ ] There are examples of the Cassandra metaphor being applied in the contexts of , the media, to feminist perspectives on reality, and in politics | Those who support the new vision are termed "Cassandras"—able to see what is going to happen, but not believed |
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| " Laurie Layton Schapira [ ] In a 1988 study, analyst Laurie Layton Schapira explored what she called the "Cassandra complex" in the lives of two of her analysands | The Apollo archetype favors thinking over feeling, distance over closeness, objective assessment over subjective intuition |
Cassandra as moral conscience, "predicts ill to come and warns that punishment will follow and grief arise.
19| Jean Shinoda Bolen [ ] In 1989, , Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the , published an essay on the god Apollo in which she detailed a psychological profile of the "Cassandra woman" whom she suggested referred to someone suffering—as happened in the mythological relationship between Cassandra and Apollo—a dysfunctional relationship with an "Apollo man | Individuals sometimes acquire the label of 'Cassandras', whose warnings of impending environmental disaster are disbelieved or mocked |
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she may become increasingly irrational or hysterical.
| Klein's use of the metaphor centers on the moral nature of certain predictions, which tends to evoke in others "a refusal to believe what at the same time they know to be true, and expresses the universal tendency toward denial, [with] denial being a potent defence against persecutory anxiety and guilt | |
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| The intellectual specialization of this archetype creates emotional distance and can predispose relationships to a lack of emotional reciprocity and consequent dysfunctions | , Envy and Gratitude- And Other Works 1946—1963, p |
The five-part song "Cassandra Gemini" may reference this syndrome, as well as the film or in 's "Cassandra Syndrome".
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