Abstract
In Le Mythe, Aujourd’hui Roland Barthes provides a working model of “myth.” It is suggested that this can be used to understand mythical thinking within counselling and teaching situations where differing socio-linguistic fields of perception may meet without mixing. Communication can fail where representatives of the major society operate with a rationale which ignores mythical thought-processes.
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Heaton, J. (1968). Book Reviews. In: The Human Context. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-2747-7_11
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