Cassandra Trotter Cassandra Trotter Cassandra Louise Trotter (née Parry; born 16 June 1966) is a fictional character from the British sitcom "Only Fools and Horses". She was portrayed by Gwyneth Strong. The intelligent, slightly-spoiled daughter of the owner of a successful paper merchant, Alan (Denis Lill) and his wife Pam (Wanda Ventham), Cassandra was an ambitious employee of the local bank. She made her first "Only Fools and Horses" appearance in the episode "Yuppy Love", in which she was an attendee of Rodney's adult education class. The two first met when they accidentally mixed up their raincoats in the cloak room, and
Cassandra (metaphor) true, and expresses the universal tendency toward denial, [with] denial being a potent defence against persecutory anxiety and guilt". In a 1988 study, Jungian analyst Laurie Layton Schapira, explored what she called the "Cassandra Complex" in the lives of two of her analysands. Based on clinical experience, she delineates three factors which constitute the Cassandra complex: Layton Schapira views the Cassandra complex as resulting from a dysfunctional relationship with what she calls the "Apollo archetype", an archetype which refers to any individual's or culture's pattern that is dedicated to, yet bound by, order, reason, intellect, truth and clarity that disavows