Marmor pleads for flexibility in the standard psychoanalytic technique. Interviews with 'significant others' in the analysand's life should not only be permitted, but should be mandatory. This strikes the reviewer as a strange kind of flexibility. The author's main point seems to lie in the difficult and perhaps interminable analysis of ego attitudes. That free association should carry the burden of indictment for difficulties within the method, the analysand, and the analyzing instrument of the analyst seems overly selective. Implicit in this cursory critique of analytic technique is the model of a rigid, robot-like analyst unable to compute the 'information' and 'transactions' of an equally robot-like analysand. In such a situation, free association would indeed be limited in its efficacy.