On their flight are 117 fellow psychoanalysts, many of whom have treated Isadora. Along with her psychiatrist spouse, Isadora is en route to a psychoanalytical congress in Vienna. She doesn’t quite find the zipless fuck, but she does come closer to finding herself.Īs Fear of Flying opens, Isadora is far from reconciling her desires. Oh, how Isadora wants: unfettered sex, passion, adoration, unbounded love, emotional connection, intellectual communion.īouncing between her emotionally rigid husband, Bennett, and the alluringly unavailable Adrian Goodlove, Isadora temporarily bolts, leaving her staid marriage for a truncated European odyssey. In the novel, Jong’s alter ego, Isadora Wing, grapples with conflicting desires for marital stability and the zipless fuck’s sexual freedom. It was a platonic ideal… For the true, ultimate zipless A-1 fuck, it was necessary that you never got to know the man very well.”įorty years after publication, Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying remains timely in its concerns.
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