TY - JOUR A1 - David-West, Alzo T1 - Erich Fromm and North Korea: A Talk with Students at the Yonsei University International Summer School, July 1, 2010 JF - Mulberry, No. 64 (2015), pp. 69-81. N2 - This talk was delivered to students in Sociology IEE3131: Politics and Society of North Korea at the Yonsei University International Summer School, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, on July 1, 2010. The subject is the social psychology of the national-Stalinist North Korean state-regime from the perspective of Erich Fromm's sociological revision of psychoanalysis. Totalitarianism, patricentricism, group narcissism, ideology, and the revolutionary facade are addressed. A revised and expanded version of the talk is published as the paper “Erich Fromm and North Korea: Social Psychology and the Political Regime” in Critical Sociology, Vol. 40.4 (2014): 575-600. Keywords: critical theory, group narcissism, humanist psychoanalysis, nationalism, North Korea, patricentrism, social psychology, Stalinism, totalitarianism. Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - David-West, Alzo T1 - Erich Fromm and North Korea: Social Psychology and the Political Regime JF - Critical Sociology, Vol. 40, No. 4, July 2014, pp. 575-600. N2 - This paper addresses the problem of social psychology and the political regime in North Korea through the sociopsychological theory of humanist psychoanalyst Erich Fromm. Since humanist psychoanalysis has not been systematically applied in academic discussion on North Korean politics and society, the author outlines Fromm’s neo-Marxist/neo-Freudian perspective in conjunction with observations on eroding totalitarianism and patricentrism, group narcissism and anxiety, official ideology, internalized authority and women, the revolutionary façade, and dream analysis as a relevant component of a social psychology of North Korea. Y1 - 2014 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - David-West, Alzo T1 - What would Erich Fromm say about North Korea? A preliminary application of humanist psychoanalysis JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 3, 2013), pp. 176-187. N2 - This paper considers the possibility of applying the sociologically oriented humanist psychoanalysis of Erich Fromm to the evaluation of the political character of the North Korean state and society, with particular attention given to Fromm's concepts of the matricentric complex and patricentric complex, as well as to his analysis of fascism and Stalinism. The author explains that if humanist psychoanalysis is consistently applied, North Korea can be understood as a transitional postcolonial Stalinist state with a patricentric social order that exploits the matricentric complex for mass control. Y1 - 2013 ER -