The Seba library treats Cassandra in 5 passages, across 5 authors (including Berry, Patricia, Klein, Melanie, Douglas L. Cairns).
Cassandra virginity, by running from formal articulation, loses touch with the persuasive power of the image.
Berry argues that the Cassandra mode of psychic virginity represents a failure of image-embodiment: prophetic knowledge is preserved but rendered impotent by its refusal of formal, persuasive articulation.
, Echo’s Subtle Body: Contributions to an Archetypal Psychology, 1982thesis
The hostility between Cassandra and Clytemnestra. Their direct rivalry concerning Agamemnon illustrates one feature of the daughter and mother relation—the rivalry between two women for the sexual gratification by the same man.
Klein reads Cassandra’s conflict with Clytemnestra as a clinical illustration of the oedipal rivalry in which the daughter who has ‘succeeded’ in taking the father from the mother anticipates retributive punishment.
, Envy and Gratitude and Other Works 1946-1963, 1957thesis
The aidos of Cassandra at Agamemnon 1203, the prophetess explains, previously prevented her admission of the sexual nature of
Cairns identifies Cassandra’s aidos as the operative psychological mechanism inhibiting her from disclosing the sexual character of her relationship with Apollo, situating her silence within the Greek ethics of honour and shame.
, Aidos: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature, 1993supporting
Clytemnestra’s prophetic dream emerges from muchos: the darkness of the house and of her guilt. These, then, are the three main contributory images in tragic portraiture of prophetic, articulate innards: animal entrails in divination, internal dialogue, and the seer.
Padel’s analysis of prophetic darkness and the articulate innards in the Oresteia provides the broader tragic context within which Cassandra’s oracular speech and its connection to hidden interior knowledge must be understood.
, In and Out of the Mind Greek Images of the Tragic Self, 1994supporting
Cassandra, 439, 476
Nussbaum’s index entries indicate that Cassandra is referenced in the context of Hellenistic ethical and therapeutic discussion, though no sustained argument concerning the figure is developed in this passage.
, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, 1994aside