Cassandra: A Case Study of Hysteria? (3/5) – The Body
Cassandra appears—dancing, singing, frantic. Her body does no longer seem to belong to her; she moves like a possessed being. In his Studies, Freud describes how a strangulated affect takes possession of the body, converting psychic pain into somatic pain. But do these symptoms truly exist in the Trojan Women? Furthermore, how do we deal…