This article offers commentary on Roger Frie’s “Limits of understanding: Psychological experience, German memory, and the Holocaust.” Specifically, the article presents four variants of unconsciousness pertinent to Frie’s work: the dynamic unconscious, as articulated in classical psychoanalysis; the narrative unconscious, which is about those culturally-rooted aspects of our histories that have yet to become an explicit part of our life stories; the temporal unconscious, manifested especially in the form of our “lateness” in understanding and coming to terms with the past; and the ethical unconscious, which, for present purposes, refers to the call made upon us by others and often manifested in the form of guilt or shame over our own inaction or inability adequately to respond to it. That in the case of the Holocaust it is literally too late to respond to such a call is largely irrelevant. The call remains, and painful though it may be to hear it now, it stands as an important index of our frequently unacknowledged humanity.