In the current context of a major crisis in psychiatry, and faced with the despair and exhaustion spreading through the teams, several forms of unconscious resistance may emerge, aimed at safeguarding the collective and the individuals or both simultaneously. Within the caring group, what the author calls the heroic complex is then mobilized. When a catastrophic care situation threatens to expose patients to negligence or abuse, one or several members of the group are moved by an urge to resist and irrepressibly and temporarily take on the role of the ideal, thus becoming the herald of the collective, by proposing an ultimate solution. The author highlights several forms and vicissitudes of the heroic complex, examining its clinical interest, its symboligenic conditions of existence, its limits, and the goal to which it tends: the reinstatement of an ideal and a protective superego, with the aim of refounding the primordial scene of care.