VEKQUIN'S VITA

1. Academic Education
2. Independent Studies
3. Personal Experience
4. Professional Practice

I spent eight years in college and on the 6th of June 2006, I finished my BA in Philosophy and Psychology. Now I'm taking a year off to write a book on the theoretical framework that I use to interpret the data I gather in my work as a fetish analyst (which, ironically, has very little to do with my academic studies at all, and is mostly based on the theoretical perspective I developed on the dark side of life that I gained through my unusual life experience, devoid of books).

During the eight years that I spent in college, I moved from one side of the country to the other several times. It was because I kept trying to run away from my demons, until finally I realized that my demons were parts of myself, and thus inescapable. At that moment, I turned to face them, stood still, looked straight into their eyes and listened very closely to what they had to say to me. This required me to learn their language, and once I did, I found that they were actually messengers in disguise, appearing grotesque only because I made them that way in my own mind (mostly due to social conditioning). In essence, they were ancient, neutral entities, and when I shook their hands to thank them for bestowing me with their wisdom of millenia, they died. This made clear to me that they had served their purpose of existence -- once fulfilled, they vanished. The demons left me with the power to dissolve them by going towards them, into them; and thereby illuminating and comprehending them, which is their death. With this learned power, I began my raison de' e'tre, a life-long practice of dissolving the demons of those who stand still and speak from the dark depths of themselves long enough that I may comprehend them. Illumination is possible only by going directly through the dark into to the light. The process is very much like Plato's Allegory of the Cave.

Major Studies :

EARLY MODERN PHENOMENOLOGY (Descartes)
ANALYTIC ONTOLOGY (Kant)
DOGMATIC EMPIRICISM (Hobbes, Locke, Mill)
SKEPTICAL EMPIRICISM (Hume)
ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY (Russell, Moore, Sellars, Quine)
PHILOSOPHY OF LOGIC (Wittgenstein)
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY (Standard clinical theories in the following branches: Freudian Analysis, Jungian Analysis, Horneyian Analysis, Adlerian Analysis, Behaviorism, Humanism, Existential Clinical Psychology (Bugenthal, Boss, May, Laing) other modern clinical psychology [i.e.: Mediaeval Mechanism disguised as "new" psychology] East-West Synthesis from various Buddhist perspectives, Transpersonal (though strangely the professor left out Grof, the founder of the field), Statistics.
HISTORY & SYSTEMS OF PSYCHOLOGY (Ancient Greek to Present, a blurry over-view with inaccuracies.)
HISTORY & THEORIES OF BUDDHISM, TAOISM, CONFUCIANISM, SHINTO (India, China, Japan, Tibet, North America and Europe, including the Japanese practice of bringing buddhism into clinical psychology.)

The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA

1995 - 1997 : Philosophy

City College of San Francisco, CA, USA

1991 - 1993: Philosophy

Daytona Beach Community College, FL, USA

1988 - 1990 : Psychology

INDEPENDENT STUDIES

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

I have been working as an analyst since 2002, after doing three years of empirical research with several hundred people on repetitive, uncontrollable fantasies, fixations, and obsessions, usually involving some form of sadomasochism, domination and submission, bondage and discipline or fetishism. I continued my research for two more years, totally five years. I've written up the complete historical outline of my work for those who would like detailed information on how I became "the fetish analyst".

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