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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!