Structuralist elements in anthropological and clinical paradigms in legal psychology

Abstract

The article is devoted to the definition of the key elements of the structuralist approach in the dimension of legal and psychological issues, in particular their influence on the formation of two historical paradigms in legal psychology: anthropological and clinical one. The historical-comparative method within the framework of the conducted research made it possible to systematize the implementation of the ideas of structuralism by representatives of different paradigms in legal psychology. The systematic method made it possible to establish a theoretical compatibility between the research problems of various structuralist representatives. The gnoseological method was used to differentiate the process elements of scientific knowledge within the framework of the structuralist approach in psychology. The work defines structuralist features and it's process of the transition from the field of linguistics to the anthropological and clinical paradigm in legal psychology. A significant part of the article is devoted to the definition of the features of structural anthropology in the scientific work of Claude Lévi-Strauss, and the borrowing of his methods in the psychoanalytic paradigm by Jacques Lacan in the early 1950s, which later led to the systematization of structuralist methodology in the system of psychological knowledge. Among the results of the study, it is worth noting that the systematization of scientific material, in particular the analysis of the works of modern researchers of the history of science, the history of psychology, psychoanalysis, as well as the analogies between the concepts and features of the structuralist approach in the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan made it possible to determine the nature of the development of structural anthropology and structural clinical psychoanalysis in the early 1950s. Based on this, article determines the synthetic nature of structuralism and its application in anthropological and clinical paradigms in legal psychology. The scientific novelty consists in the use of structuralism as a tool for the formation of an integrative approach to the use of anthropological and clinical paradigms in legal psychology, which is determined by the structuralist theoretical and methodological principles inherent in both paradigms. The practical significance of the research results lies in the possibility of their further implementation in the study of the regularities of the development of legal and psychological knowledge concerning the change of paradigms and later transition to existential-humanistic and socio-contextual paradigms in legal psychology.

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