I don’t think it’s true. Otherwise, Frasier would never have had so many issues running out of time or leaving dead air on his show. It’s only thanks to his phenomenal producer, Roz, that he managed to keep his show running lol

I don’t think it’s true. It’s just a fun way to imply a person has intentions subconsciously driving them to behave a certain way. In my experience, I’m pretty consciously making every choice. I rarely ever do anything by accident and - usually - the accident is definitely not helpful in anyway. E.g. dropping something is not subconsciously helpful. Doesn’t indicate I wanted to drop that thing.

Frasier is full of “pop psychology,” but the writers do a good job of insinuating that his show is pop psychology. The fact that Niles doesn’t refute it is harder to justify…

I think that for the most part, the golden age of the show did a really fun job at poking fun at the sillier aspects of Freudianism, which is already a deeply silly way of understanding the world. Frasier’s obsessive need to interrogate everything to death looking for hidden, subconscious meanings is comic gold. “The Impossible Dream” is my personal favorite example of it. Like Martin says, sometimes dreams are just weird.

I kinda wish the writers had done the same with Niles’ Jungianism, but I think there’s a lot less pop cultural knowledge of it to work with and the silly parts are more mystical and esoteric, so I don’t know if it would have been possible. Still fun to imagine, though!