Do You Suffer from Cassandra Complex?
Do you feel you can predict the future but are unable to change it? You may have a Cassandra Complex.
Do You Have a Cassandra Complex?
The Spiritual-Psychic community tends to accept the intuition and the messages from channelers as a parallel form of news and guidance. Anyone working with spirit may one time, or another felt drawn to this ancient archetype.
Cassandra Complex draws the profile of someone who thinks they can predict the future but feels unable to change it. This curious phenomenon can torment those who suffer from it, making predictions in which others do not believe.
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was one of the princesses of Troy, daughter of Priam and Hecuba.
According to the legends, she was a beautiful woman who was blessed with the gift of seeing the future. However, this ability was accompanied by a curse: no one would believe her.
Because of this, Cassandra could anticipate the outcome of many disastrous events, such as the acceptance of the famous Greek horse by the Trojans. Cassandra’s family thought she was crazy and did not believe her crazy story about the Greeks’ intentions to attack the city. Of course, the more than famous story ended with the defeat of the Trojans and the destruction of their city.
The versions of this mythic story may vary, and in some of them, Cassandra even becomes imprisoned for her madness. In short, Cassandra has always been shown as a woman that was never understood. Thus, the origins of the myth are in stories about a divine punishment that the god Apollo imposed on that woman. This punishment was because the god was rejected by Cassandra, so he retaliated with a gift of prophecy that would only bring her frustration and despair. Cassandra had served as a priestess of Apollo and taken a sacred vow of chastity to remain a virgin for her entire life.
The Cassandra Complex Based on the Myth: The Invisibility of Women
After the stories related to the Cassandra myth, the term “Cassandra complex” was coined, which is applied to people who make predictions, often catastrophic, without others believing in them. Due to advances in scientific knowledge, the general mentality of our society tends to emphasize rationality and empiricism that overlooks aspects related to the non-rational, such as imaginative visions.
Therefore, this type of discovery is often invisible and taken as a simple coincidence. In ancient Greece, the prevailing patriarchal society was characterized by equating the feminine with the needy, the weak, and with what is likely to be dominated and exploited.
Submission and silence were the ideal virtues for women’s behavior in that culture. This outlook, which survives in part to this day, has given way to the existence of many invisible women. However, there is multiple evidence of how women are present in a relevant way in a large number of historical events, both in the political sphere, as well as in the scientific, social and artistic domains.
Cassandra Complex can explain how the patriarchal through time logic absorbed these achievements, taking the merit of all these women and transferring their role to figures such as their parents, brothers or husbands. Nowadays, it is not difficult to see examples of this phenomenon of invisibility in women in the media, where a good part of their chances of success is based on only their physical appearance.
Woman as Commodity and Property
The Cassandra myth tells how, after Troy was invaded and ransacked, Cassandra was delivered in the form of a war spoil to the Greek king Agamemnon. The story draws an archaic picture of how women’s bodies, even in our heights in history, are still used as a commodity, as an object of pleasure for men or as a showcase for selling a product.
The objectification of the female body is the order of the day. Thus, most women find essential barriers in their personal or professional development when judged by their physical appearance or age, not by their abilities, intellectual potential or achievements.
Also, a large number of women have to face structural disbelief. In a patriarchal society, women who want to fight to eliminate gender roles and stereotypes are often silenced or marginalized. This is starting to change with the new movements such as the “Me too.”
Many women, after overcoming various obstacles and disadvantages, after gaining access to positions of power and achieving recognition beyond what is traditionally expected of them are delegitimized, disqualified, or not taken seriously.
This may be directly related to Cassandra’s phenomenon, and to how society deafens itself to the achievements of a woman who escapes from what is supposedly expected of her.
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