Excerpts from RKSJR's career resume
          
Not included are the "Formal Education" section and the "Employment"
section. For the resume including these sections, contact RKSJR via the
e-mail link near the end of this web site.

Informal Education (including research in the humanities and social
sciences) (excerpts):

2003-04 Independent study of material related to the recent 
        work of Dr. David Lavery, Ph.D., English Dept., 
        Middle Tennessee State University, Nashville, 
        Tennessee (Dr. Lavery has recently focused his 
        studies on the historic trends and underlying 
        themes in current popular televised literature, 
        specifically material written and directed by Joss 
        Whedon. Researchers at the University of East 
        Anglia, UK, are similarly focusing their attention 
        to this area of study, i.e. the work of Joss 
        Whedon.) 
       
        My viewing/listening habits in current electronic media (i.e.
        television and radio) are such that I tend to avoid most of the
        contemporary fiction therein because of the excessive gratuitous
        violence. For that reason, greater than approximately 95% of my
        viewing or listening is of productions distributed over the NPR
        or PBS networks (or of programming originating from their two
        local affiliates), or of a local classical music station. I
        will, however, occasionally make an exception to the above
        described habit, if members of the academic community are studying
        a particular opus on television or radio. The area of study of Dr.
        David Lavery (referred to above) is such an exception.
 
1999-04 Independent study of Merlin Stone's book When God 
        was a Woman [1.]; I am interested in continuing
        a study of: i. the "Son of Man" tradition in the Hebrew 
        scripture in the light of Stone's discussions regarding 
        the anti-matrilinealist propaganda campaigns described 
        therein, and ii. the continued use of the "Son of 
        Man" epithet in literature of the first century C.E., 
        in the context of its possible use to discourage 
        matrilineal cultural tendencies.

        While I agree with Stone's criticisms of patriarchy,
        if Stone is correct, we owe to Judaism a debt of
        gratitude for its having ushered in the two parent
        family (i.e. the family composed of two biological
        parents as the statistical norm), for which 
        Stone (in my opinion) gives Judaism insufficient 
        credit.

1974-79 Informally audited university courses [2.], 
        (mostly in the humanities and social sciences): 
        philosophy, anthropology, history, psychology,   
        sociology, religious studies, English, business 
        law, art history, engineering, economics, social 
        service, computer programming, music theory, et 
        cetera.

1971-79 Independent study in psychoanalytic literature: 
        
        Independently developed the theory that 
        Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is fertile 
        ground for applying the doctrines set forth in 
        Sigmund Freud's paper "The Taboo of Virginity" [3.] 
        (Freud's primary doctrine in his paper is that if 
        the taboo is broken, then tragedy will result, 
        regardless of whether the taboo is violated inside
        or outside of the marriage bond.); unpublished;
        
        Independently developed the theory 
        that heart iconography (specifically the two 
        semicircles of the valentine iconograph) is 
        structured more on the shape of the gluteal 
        hemispheres than on the shape of the anatomical 
        heart, unpublished; 

        Nurtured a fascination in theories of 
        endopsychic perception [4.] (i.e. internal 
        unconscious psychological processes perceived to 
        be external, for example, the 
        observer/pursuer/persecutor perceived to be 
        external in classical paranoid schizophrenia).

 
                    Notes and References

1. Stone, Merlin, When God was a Woman, Harcourt Brace,
   New York, 1976.

2. Most of the informal auditing was undertaken after I
   graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in June 
   of 1974.

3. Freud, Sigmund, "Contributions to the Psychology of 
   Love, The Taboo of Virginity", Collected Papers, 
   volume 4, (paper XIII) pages 217 - 235 (1918), First 
   American Edition, 1959.

4. Freud, Sigmund, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life,
   page 258, Norton Library, New York, 1960 & 1965.

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