Some Jungians romanticize the archetypes. They encourage their clients to find and claim the particular archetype or myth that has organized their life. Life then becomes a process of affirming and living out this myth. However, our goal should not be to identify with an archetypal pattern, or to allow a mythic expression of it to make our lives what it will. For when we romantically identify with any archetype, we cease to be viable human beings moving towards wholeness [emphasis his].502
