 Different suboptimal resolutions to this crisis are explored, including a ‘regressive restoration of the persona’, which is a retreat to a mode of being that one has already outgrown and an avoidance of future growth and risk.Another partial solution is called ‘identification with the collective psyche,’ where the collapsed ego allows itself to be swallowed by the unconscious.Jung points out that this is the beginning of the renewal process of the hero’s journey but that people can lose themselves in the belly of the whale.