Quote Originally Posted by Snails View Post
Our culture lacks psychologists with sufficient star power in their name that it could be anything else. The writers are stuck with Freud as the kind of person whom a learned person could gain insights from, even if the idea they want to insert into the conversation would be unrecognizable to Freud.

If Sweet attributed a quote to, say, Jung or Piaget, 98% of the audience would be baffled.
They mention Jung in a delightful episode of Northern Exposure.