Abstract

The purpose of the study is to determine the conditions and mechanisms for the formation of primitive thinking, initially devoid of strict subordination to the means of subsistence for large-scale goals. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the identification of a set of legal regulators within the processes of primitive thinking. As a result, the author identified a transition from the fragmentary epistemological experience of an individual to a logical system, which is reflected in the mechanisms of regulating life in a primitive society. Turning to the works of sociologists, philosophers and culturologists of the XXth century, it is important to highlight metaphor and symbolism as turning vectors of the functioning of primitive thinking.