Dr. Vladimir Melamed is independent scholar and Director of Institute of Ethnopolitical Studies. He defended his doctoral dissertation at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In the United States he worked on post-doctoral research at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University.Dr. Melamed served as a Senior Researcher with the Shoah Institute for Visual History and Education and then for ten years held position of Director of Archive, Research and Library with the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum. From 2017 to June 2022 Dr. Melamed was a Director of Research and Archival Department at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. He authored three books and wrote tens of articles. It is largely a discourse in ethno β national and ethno β political history run by existential content. Dr. Melamed has been applying theories of psychoanalysis and existential philosophy situations to elucidate historical historical narratives.
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Ukrainian - Jewish - Polish encounters and interactions
East Galicia was a Ukrainian (Ruthenian) principality between the 12th and 14th centuries. From the end of the 14th century and until 1772, the region remained included in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the partition of Poland it fell under the Austrian rule until the end of the First World War. During the Austrian period East Galicia was gradually becoming a homeland to three ethno-national groups: Ukrainian, Poles and Jews. By the end of the 19th century the province acquired administrative autonomy and the governance was entrusted to the Poles. It was also the time of the rising Ukrainian national ideation. The end of the 19th century saw Jewish national awakening in East Galicia. Jewish intelligentsia became actively involved in emancipation and acculturation, while the majority of Jewish population remained Yiddish-speaking religious community.
According to our model there was a structural continuity in the development of the ethno-national, economic, social and cultural stratification of the city and region. The multilateral data from the two official Polish censuses (1921 and 1931) in conjunction with the correlated Polish statistical publications of the time were our main sources. We however have gone further and interpreted the given stratifications vis-Γ -vis the historical and literary narratives dealing with the inter-communal interactions on personal and political levels.
The NCP Archival Collection contains highly valuable in historical and psychoanalytic terms scientific works penned by Dr. Ernst Simmel, Otto Fenichel and their colleagues. The writings of the next generation of analysts have been also well represented. There are two Collections of Sigmund Freudβs Correspondences. These are the collection of the letters between Freud and Simmel, dated between 1918 and 1939 and the collection of letters between Freud and Alexander, dated between 1924 and 1936. This Archive also features correspondences and papers of D.W. Winnicott and W.R. Bion.
Evidently, the published and largely unpublished works (manuscripts) of the analysts who worked in Los Angeles from the 1930s to the late 1960s constitute a scientific legacy for the modern Science of Psychoanalysis.
Discourse of Ukrainian national aspirations, strive for independence and political interactions with regard to Polish state politics and Jewish parliamentary dealings.
Drafts by Dr. Vladimir Melamed