Its a Freud bit - enough said
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This bit works flawlessly and is high quality as with all Freud tools on the market. The carbide is thicker than most and the bearing appears to be very good quality.
4237708
What can you say? It's a Freud router bit! Cut clean on both the router table and fixed base hand hold router. I have a number of Freud products and I have yet to be disappointed in the quality of the products.
3373561
You know when you buy a Freud router bit that you will get a quality bit that is well manufactured and will last. That is important when you do a great deal of furniture making. There are cheaper bits that will be acceptable for a while and then degrade in performance. You get what you pay for. This bit has performed well and will do so for a long time if taken care of properly.
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This small book arose as a result of Freud's reaction to an unsuccessful 1926 attempt of the Vienna Psycho-Analytical Society to prevent one of their non-medical members from practicing psychoanalysis.  (Freud himself felt that a medical degree was NOT essential to practicing psychoanalysis.)

Here are some representative quotations from the book:

"Confession no doubt plays a part in analysis---as an introduction to it, we might say. But it is very far from constituting the essence of analysis or from explaining its effects. In Confession the sinner tells what he knows; in analysis the neurotic has to tell more."
"All that is true is that everything that happens in the id is and remains unconscious, and that processes in the ego, and they alone, CAN become conscious. But not all of them are, nor always, nor necessarily; and large portions of the ego can remain permanently unconscious."
"If we survey the whole situation we arrive at a simple formula for the origin of a neurosis: the ego has made an attempt to suppress certain portions of the id in an inappropriate manner, this attempt has failed, and the id has taken its revenge."
"Think of the war neurotics, who do not have to serve, precisely because they are ill. In civil life illness can be used as a screen to gloss over incompetence in one's profession ... while in the family it can serve as a means for sacrificing the other members and extorting proofs of their love or for imposing one's will upon them. All of this lies fairly near the surface; we sum it up in the term 'gain from illness.'"
"Honesty compels me to admit that the activity of an untrained analyst does less harm to his patient than that of an unskilled surgeon."

In his 1927 Postscript, Freud states, "My main thesis was that the important question is not whether an analyst possesses a medical diploma but whether he has had the special training necessary for the practice of analysis."
1050043
Freud is the name to go to for the best quality woodworking equipment.  This bit cuts very well, cleans up and is re-sharpened very easily.  Should last a lifetime.
2750540
I find it amazing that some of the reviews reference the "pornographic" content of the book and use this as a basis to discredit it. Speaking from a purely logical and psychological point of view, don't you think if someone WAS sexually abused in the fashion related in the book, they might be preoccupied with sex for the remainder of their lives? It's a pretty well-documented phenomena among sexually-abused children. Think, guys. Think.

As to the rest... no way to know if it's true or not, or disinformation or fabricated or anything else. Worth the read because if nothing else, it is always better to have too much information than not enough.
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If it's Freud it has to be good. These T&G cutters are very precision, they produce excellent paneling and flooring, be advised they must be used in a router table for the best results and safest use.
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How odd to try to write a review for a psychology themed biography book based on evaluating ones mind through visual assessment criteria which is abstract. I don't believe it is my job to persuade anyone to read or skip this book. Those who have interest will dive in for the experience and what they walk away with will be uniquely their own whether they enjoy it or not. Instead, I choose to share a very small excerpt that seemed to jump from the pages as I came across it. Most of the following ideas and statements are lifted from this book. The discussion was how Freud was a word person, used talk therapy, founded "Freudian Slips", and focused on uncovering the unconscious in what one says or doesn't say. Modern psychology worships at the altar of statistics. In contrast, Rorschach was a visual person who created visual psychology. Our brains are highly devoted to visual processing, estimates run as high as 85%. Seeing runs deeper than talking.
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I find the Solmses efforts to ressurect Freud both helpful and overgeneralized. Helpful in that they clearly have a firm grasp of the general goals Freud had in mind; overgenralized in the limited incorporation of work by grounded researers such as Jaak Panksepp. One small chapter on Paksepp's work is much too abbreviated. A balanced approach to what is of value from Freud's "musings" and what is not is missing. I enjoyed reading the book and recommend it as a beginning in the new adventure of creating a psychodynamic neurology. The Solmses goal is a neuro-dynamic psychoanalysis, which I see as a part of Allan Hobson's Psychodynamic Neurology. To balance out the Solmes efforts read Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score; Clynes and Panksepp's Emotions and Psychopathology; Allan Schore's The Science and the Art of Psychotherapy; and one of Allan Hobson's recent books such as Ego Damage and Repair. One can also find the Hobson-Solms debate on Amazon books.
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The book is full of psychology material and the new method found called NVC and some personal experience of author.
Its worth noting down or highlight the point.
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Your typical Freud quality that you'd expect. 90% of my grooves are 1/4 or 3/8 box joints that need flat bottoms. Done:)
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Freud was never really young.  He was burdened by the wisdom of age.  Sigmund Freud's task was the stripping of concealments.  He could not abandon physiological presuppositions.  Freud derived ideas on psychology from his French sources.  His elegant and precise writing style displayed qualities of intellectual patience and thoroughness.  Freud's theory of instinct demonstrate the contradictions in nature and culture.  Neurotic symptoms are a mask for memory.  Freud was fond of the rhetorical device, synecdoche, in which the name of a part or attribute is made to stand for the whole.

The sense of inevitability in Freud's teachings are in conflict with the myth of democratic culture.  The author charges that Freud never understood the ethic of self-sacrifice.  In Freud's scheme the super-ego inherited the Oedipus Complex.  The Freudian case histories are vigorously intellectual.

The term analysis carries a rationalist promise.  Nevertheless, dream is not faithful translation, it is not point for point projection.  Nothing is unmediated meaning.  The analytic method is indirect.  Freud provides a critique of romantic love.  Freud describes the psychological process out of which myth develops.  He does not distinguish human purpose from natural development.

Freud's messianic strain caused him to admire resolute minorities.  He revered the moral tenacity of the Jews.  He named one of his sons after Oliver Cromwell.  He would have preferred an heroic father to a prudent one.  Psychoanalysis defends the private man from public encroachment.  Freud connected religion with an emotional need for authority.  The author speaks of the euthanasia of religion by Freud.  Instinctual desire may be the displacement of frustrated moral aspiration.  There is a Freudian ethic of honesty.

The book seeks to overturn some of the popular misconceptions of Freud and his discipline.
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At the heart of this book is a symbol -- Freud's own psychoanalytic couch -- one of the iconic images of the 20th Century. Freud himself said he adopted the couch for psychoanalysis because he couldn't stand to be stared at by his patients all day. But the truth, as Dr Nathan Kravis makes indelibly clear in this unique book, goes far deeper. In true psychoanalytic fashion, the symbol of the couch obscures as much as it reveals.

  One of a psychoanalyst's key capacities is to notice unexpected details. Here the key details are not verbal, but visual: the actual physical appearance of the couch itself. Freud's own couch, Kravis points out, was an oriental-style divan -- an item of furniture whose history goes back a few centuries in Europe, and in some ways even further to classical Greece and Rome.

  In its original Freudian embodiment, the couch was decidedly more sensual. And psychoanalysis itself was originally a step-child of clinical hypnosis, a practice with decidedly erotic overtones. As Kravis writes, "the couch -- and recumbent speech itself -- resonates with a culturally rich and intriguingly ambiguous interplay of traditions of luxury, healing, intimacy, and erotic freedom."  ("Pillow-talk," if you will).  The point is driven home by a remarkable series of images of naked or semi-naked bodies lying on luxurious couches -- from ancient Rome, to Titian, Ingres, David, Boucher, Renior, Sargent, Manet, 19th Century photographers, Henri Rousseau, and Picasso.

  On the Couch is as beautiful as any living-room-table guidebook to an exhibit at the Met. Working together with distinguished picture editor Leora Kahn, Kravis has put together a breathtaking collection of images that clearly situates Freud's couch within a visual tradition of the erotic.

  Confronted with this astonishing series of images, it's hard not to wonder that no one thought to connect these dots to Freud, until Dr Kravis. But that's the case with all great insights, of course: In retrospect, they seem obvious.

  Let's not forget that to the early 20th Century mind, "Freudianism" meant only one thing: that everything -- towers, forests, cigars -- was connected to sex.  In its early days, psychoanalysis attracted more than its share of bohemian spirits. What became of this clearly sensuous ritual as the 20th Century proceeded, was that the design of psychoanalytic couches became decidedly more austere -- as if to deny the original sensual impulse behind psychoanalysis itself.  Practitioners seemed to be more uneasy with the harem-like eroticism embodied by Freud's original couch.

  Kravis rightly points out the original eroticism of the psychoanalytic procedure -- and connects the couch with other currents in Western culture as well. The result is a tour-de-force of historical scholarship, brilliantly argued. I only wish it could reach a broader intellectual audience. Its use of technical language (such as "analysand" for "patient on the couch"), while conventional in psychoanalytic writing, limits the degree to which the book will be understood by lay readers. I hope the author will choose to adapt this work so it can be more widely read!
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Hey, I studied psychology too! I've seen a couple of those studies, minus the ones about Freud and Pavlov of course. But I didn't have the same takeaways and analysis that this author does. Really good stuff.

For example, the author talks the concept of parity in relationships and how it is something we subconsciously strive for. It made me think about my friendships and why I do what I do sometimes. Seems spot on.

The rest of the book as well, but that one chapter was very very illuminating for me to read!
1023628
Any student of psychology would love to read this short introduction. It is not overly detailed and provides an insight into Freud's.
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R.D.Laing's "The Divided Self" is a zoo of schizophrenic. (I am not making fun of schizoids. I am one too. And I was not offended at all.) There was David who looked into the mirror and acted like his dead mother. There was Peter who had this non-existent smell. And he was planning to disappear. Julie who was a good child, who became nutty and then mad. And etc...

What is more interesting is to see the psychoanalyst's relation to these schizophrenics. How the analysts take apart the patients relation to the world. I keep thinking "well yeah, Dr, I am looking in to your psych world too." And when I think of system, I think of Newtonian mechanics. (Freud was impressed by Newtonian mechanics too.) But the stream of language, an abstract one at that, reveals me to a level of thought that is not often reached. And I believe, the Doctors, see their own doctors, and this doctor sees his, etc.. Its a hierarchy of power. Its just amazing we have these structures that we don't know.

Laing's system is based on Self, Body, and World. The healthy will organize their experience as (Self, Body) and the World. While the ill will organize their experience as Self (Body, World). The (Self) is an Unembodied entity. Perhaps not unlike a robot.
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As the other reviewer said, this is a Freud bit and that means that it's high quality.  There are other good manufacturers...Amama, CMT, Whiteside just to name a few.  Their products cost many times what the Chinese imports cost. There's a reason for that...quality control.  You haven't lived until you've had a cheap router bit self-destruct when it gets up to speed.  Luckily, no one was hurt.

As for this particular bit, I'm currently using it to round off the tops of some maple boards.  Using a couple of passes, it's cutting through the wood like proverbial hot knife through butter. With a moderate feed rate, the surface is just about as smooth.

As bits go this one is clearly five star material.  It's sharp, precisely made and works. It's doing what it's made for.

Incidentally, this bit MUST be used in a router table.