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Flexibility in technique is essential for the development of psychoanalysis. Rigidity becomes a defense against intuitive insight. As the indications for analysis are broadened, technique must become more varied. Rigidity of the superego in the early stages may be softened by re-education, the analyst through his personal influence acting as 'an auxiliary superego'. Weigert examines several basic rules of analytic technique. The fundamental rule cannot be enforced, and the patient's circumventions of it provide essential information as to resistances. The rule of 'no major decisions' should be used flexibly to avoid precipitating acting out or re-enforcing the defenses of the patient advanced in analysis who avoids new responsibilities. Permitting the patient to change from the reclining to the sitting position reveals new defenses and 'impulsive derivatives'. A rigidly maintained rule of frequency is against the spirit of the rule of abstinence and gratifies the patient's need for dependency. Analysis of the schizoid patient should be spread over a long period to allow time for the process of maturation and assimilation of experiences, while for cycloid patients to undergo the frustration of coming to the analyst less often allows them to experience the infantile dependency needs in the transference and avoids intellectualization. The neurotic patient advanced in analysis is encouraged in his self-sufficiency by a reduction of hours. In general, flexibility in determining frequency meets the therapeutic needs of the patient just as demand feeding betters the rapport between infant and mother. Further improvements of technique will follow upon frank assessments of countertransference resistances both by group discussions and by case reports.