Culture and history play a constitutive role in human psychology and their impact is both conscious and unconscious. This article addresses the unconscious dimension of culture and history in human experience by examining Mark Freeman's notion of the narrative unconscious. Drawing on the themes of narrative, memory, culture, and hermeneutics, I provide a context for understanding the narrative unconscious and point to parallels with contemporary psychoanalysis. I suggest that the narrative unconscious can help psychoanalysts account for the centrality of cultural and historical factors in the lives of their patients and within the psychoanalytic dyad itself. I maintain that such an approach is consistent with the emerging post-Cartesian framework in psychoanalysis today.