Aron Borissovich Zalkind (Russian: Аро́н Бори́сович За́лкинд; 17 June 1888 – July 1936) was a Soviet psychologist, paedologist and psychoanalyst.
[1] After the October Revolution, Zalkind worked for the People's Commissariat for Education where was involved in the development of communist pedagogy.
Originally trained as a psychoanalyst, Zalkind was involved in an attempt to promote "Freudism" as an interpretation of psychoanalysis compatible with Marxism-Leninism.
Whereas the first five of these depict non-political technocratic utopias, the sixth, by Zalkind, entitled "The Psychology of the Future Man (Socio-Psychological Study)" was more critical: Zalkind criticised previous utopian writers for their inability to realise their utopias, something which could at that time be overcome, he claimed, thanks to the scientific nature of Marxism-Leninism.
He then described a future where social environment would be transformed by a "mature Communist" ideology: human body function would alter, women would give birth to children less frequently and would experience easier pregnancies; sexuality would be less "spontaneous" both physically and emotionally.