Fear of Flying is structured more tightly than is at first apparent. It begins with Isadora's trip to Vienna with her husband for a psychoanalytic congress. Because Vienna is the city of Freud and also, in welcoming large numbers of Jewish psychoanalysts, is trying to pretend that the Nazi past never happened, it provides an appropriate focus for Isadora's examination of personal neuroses, family history, Jewish identity, and Freud's question: "What do women want?".....
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