in an esoteric sense, i conjecture that when someone's neuronal processes are messed up (i.e. backwards, out of order, etc), then joining up with someone who is also messed up in a different yet complementary way will un-knot the combined way of thinking; maybe...

in hermetic principles, the master hermeticist will position himself/herself on the polar opposite of the current situation in order to bring in a balanced order to the universe; that is what Star Wars and other similar allegorical movies were about; in other words, if something is messed up, one shud position himself at the other end of the spectrum in order to un-mess-up the situation;