Submission Purpose
Main Conference
Submission Purpose
Main Conference
Type of Paper
Paper: Empirical
Abstract
This paper applies the theoretical framework of Fromm’s humanistic psychology to examine the reported content of North Korean defectors’ dreams during sleep and considers what the psychological data suggests about the defectors' past social experience in authoritarian North Korea and their present social situation as adults learning to adjust to a new life in neo-liberal South Korea.
Keywords
adult defectors, Erich Fromm, Korean peninsula, nightmares, sleep experiences, social psychology
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Recommended Citation
Choi, J.
(2018).
Dream Psychology of North Korean Defectors in South Korea: Implicit Learning and Social Adjustment.
Adult Education Research Conference.
https://newprairiepress.org/aerc/2018/papers/5
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Dream Psychology of North Korean Defectors in South Korea: Implicit Learning and Social Adjustment
This paper applies the theoretical framework of Fromm’s humanistic psychology to examine the reported content of North Korean defectors’ dreams during sleep and considers what the psychological data suggests about the defectors' past social experience in authoritarian North Korea and their present social situation as adults learning to adjust to a new life in neo-liberal South Korea.
