Word frequency analysis occupies a methodologically significant, if unevenly theorized, position within the depth-psychology corpus. Its most sustained contemporary advocate is Kelly Bulkeley, whose Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb) operationalizes frequency counting as the primary instrument for detecting continuities between dreaming and waking life: the percentage of dream reports in which a given word appears at least once becomes a comparative metric across populations, cultures, and psychological conditions. Bulkeley’s work represents a deliberate quantitative turn within a field historically resistant to statistical reduction, and his application of word searching to infer a dreamer’s religious orientation from textual evidence alone signals the ambition underlying the method. A precursor logic, rarely identified as such, appears in Jung’s early experimental researches, where the relative frequency of grammatical categories, reaction types, sound responses, and perseverations across association protocols functions as diagnostic signal — not of dreaming, but of complex-constellation and psychic type. Julian Jaynes brings a third perspective, deploying concordance-derived frequency data on Homeric hypostases to argue for a measurable historical shift in consciousness itself. Across these deployments, a shared tension persists: frequency counts yield patterns that are statistically tractable but interpretively underdetermined, requiring supplementary hermeneutic frameworks — psychoanalytic, phenomenological, or mythological — to convert numerical regularities into psychological meaning.