Fringe:

You should talk about Fringe in this topic. Go read some forums on the show : I never saw that much crackpot theories and seeing symbolism under every box of cereals. Really. I even think its going to surpass Lost in the accumulation of trying to see something that isn't there. Of course Abrams plays with it extensively and hide some deeper meaning in things that looks meaningless, but fans try to see a symbol everywhere, and that's just funny.

Does this page enforce anybody else's belief in the 'author is dead' theory?

To clarify, because I realized it might be vague. This isn't saying that Fan Dumb isn't rampant and people read much too deeply into things. But this troper has been to many a panel, and found that there are a lot of times where the creator has no real idea what they put into their work. A creator saying "X has no meaning" or "X means Y" isn't enough to stop discussion.

Why would Jesus be in Purgatory?

The trope seems to be for seeing symbolism that isn't there in the work, but then the examples are things like "X-men being a symbol for racism" which it... is, and has intentionally been portrayed as for decades. I'm not really sure what the point of this trope is supposed to be, aside from "lots and lots of people really hated English class in high school."

I know it's a minor point, but in Freudian psychology, the term is unconscious, not subconscious. Subconscious refers to memories that are not currently in our awareness, but are capable of being drawn into awareness. Some people find the term 'unconscious' odd, as it seems to imply being 'knocked out'. But the term is meant to imply this sort of lack of capability of being in our awareness. Some elements of the unconscious are biological, meaning that they could never be in our conscious. If you need a citation I can provide it, but as for my creds, I'm a Rutgers trained psychologist.