2046 is the story of a secret, a secret which goes through the hero of the movie and haunts him, but more important, gives him a composure. In this text, I will try to outline the topology of this secret that originates in the non-reciprocal love depicted in In the Mood for Love , and which constitutes the core of 2046 's plot. This Lacanian analysis of the secret as a master signifier and the rite by which it is symbolized will permit us to understand the process of mise en consistance of the subject of the secret, and especially, the central role of his writing process in the attempt at representing his suffering. It is in the context of this writing process that will emerge the core figure of the movie, the android with delayed emotional reactions. This topology of the secret will be followed by a discussion of two Wong Kar-Wai's specialists, Peter Brunette and Ackbar Abbas. By resisting the temptation to read Wong Kar-Wai's characters' emotional dysfunctions as symptoms of their personal pathologies, as a simply psychoanalytical reading would lead us to, I will address the following question: Why has Wong so cleverly orchestrated these formal and emotional disjunctions in his films? Through a close analysis of the android with delayed emotions, I will show how Wong's representational strategy of the abstract space of late capitalism contributes to producing new forms of subjectivity.