The Main Elements of the Structure of Legal Consciousness
The article substantiates the relevance of the study of legal awareness in the processes of law implementation at the present stage of development. Its special role in the formation of the legality of a particular private and public material legal relationship is emphasized. The concept and structural elements of this phenomenon are analyzed. The essence and characteristic features of legal thinking and legal ideology as structural elements of legal awareness are revealed. The author also analyzes the categories of desired law and legal archetypes that determine the essence of legal awareness. It is noted that the mainstreaming of legal ideology and legal psychology as the basic structural elements of legal awareness, rooted back to the Soviet theory of law, is outdated and requires a new conceptualization. The period of rethinking of these terms and their replacement with more adequate to the contemporary level of development of law has come: legal psyche, desired law, legal intuition, sense of law and justice, legal archetypes etc.