‘Cultural unconscious’ is a vague term in literary and cultural studies. It has not yet been systematically examined from the conceptual standpoint. As a concept, it is not a simple idea that combines ‘culture’ and ‘unconscious’, but refers to the mechanism of cultural psychology and epistemology structured on the interaction of history, psychology, discourse, ideology and other factors. By investigating how culture and the unconscious work together to form a concept from the integrated approach of psychoanalysis and semiotics, this article aims to turn a vague idea into a clearly defined theory of criticism with practical applicability for cultural studies. After a conception of its logic and mechanism in terms of Freud’s unconscious, Lacan’s renovation, Peirce’s semiosis, and Barthes’s semiology, the article applies the new theory to the analysis of a literary text to see how it may not only help reveal deep dimensions and mechanism of cultural consciousness but also has the potential of becoming a theory of cultural criticism.

“文化无意识”是文学和文化研究中一个模糊的术语。尚未从概念角度对其进行系统的研究。作为一个概念，它并不是一个简单的“文化”与“无意识”相结合的概念，而是指历史、心理、话语、意识形态等因素相互作用所构建的文化心理和认识论机制。本文旨在通过精神分析和符号学的综合方法研究文化和无意识如何共同形成一个概念，将一个模糊的概念转化为一个明确定义的、具有文化研究实际应用性的批评理论。本文从弗洛伊德的无意识、拉康的革新、皮尔士的符号学、巴特的符号学等方面对它的逻辑和机制进行了概念化，然后将新的理论应用到文学文本的分析中，看看它不仅有助于揭示深层的维度和机制。文化意识的理论，但也有可能成为文化批评的理论。