Remember the passage of the Argonauts between Scylla and Charibdis?
Scylla would devour the crew alive by its dog heads, leaving the ship intact but drifting on its own - that's a metaphor of madness: for the crew is the mind, and the ship is the body;
Charybdis would suck both the crew and the ship into its whirlpool - that's a metaphor of death.
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Remember the passage of the Argonauts between Scylla and Charibdis?
Scylla would devour the crew alive by its dog heads, leaving the ship intact but drifting on its own - that's a metaphor of madness: for the crew is the mind, and the ship is the body;
Charybdis would suck both the crew and the ship into its whirlpool - that's a metaphor of death.
The goal is to pass in between.