Wing soon falls in love with Adrian, and at the end of the conference, is faced with the choice of returning home with her husband or going off with Adrian to London. The excitement that stems from this revelation causes her to overlook negative facts about him (for example, he is terrible at sex). Adrian’s personality initially causes Wing to realize that she had suppressed parts of herself after marrying her husband. They express affection publicly at analyst events, stay out late, and lounge together by day near various pools. They become intimate, barely trying to hide it from anyone.
She is attracted to him for his energy, wildness, and visible eagerness to understand and explore the world. When she arrives in Vienna, she almost immediately encounters the well-known Langian analyst Adrian Goodlove. Wing suspends explanation of the insights they had held or what they had told her. Among the other passengers are six analysts who had directly treated Wing at different points in the past. She does not look forward to returning to Germany because of the recent Holocaust, and because she had found Heidelberg unwelcoming to her and Bennett, both Jews, while they were there. She does this partly to distract herself from her fear of flying, which she associates with her fear of being free of male company, a kind of unconscious Stockholm syndrome prevalent among the women of her time. Joined by her husband, Bennett, who is also a psychologist, and more than one hundred others, she reflects humorously on the insularity of her professional network. The event is the first to convene in the city since the end of the Nazi regime. Fear of Flying begins on a plane, as Wing travels to Vienna, at the time, part of Germany, to a convention of psychoanalysts.
For its focus on a variety of marginal identities and their interactions, the novel became particularly popular among feminist and intersectional audiences. Along the way, Wing finds that her sexual fantasies are entangled with the systemic oppression of women and female sexuality, as well as her ambitions in academia and literature. Twice married, Wing travels with her husband to Vienna, where she carries on an affair with another man. Fear of Flying is told from the perspective of Isadora Zelda White Stollerman Wing, a Jewish journalist and accomplished erotic poet from New York City. American poet and novelist Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying (1973) was a literary catalyst of the second-wave feminist movement, which focused on previously marginalized issues in women’s rights including sexuality, reproductive autonomy, and subtle forms of inequality that are encoded rather than explicit.
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