ABSTRACT

There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.

Freud, New Introductory Lecturers on Psychoanalysis

Apparently, Chinese thought has not theorized anything like the Freudian unconscious. How was this possible? And is it possible that today the unconscious remains largely marginal in Hong Kong? The Freudian invention was inextricably tied to Western discourse, and it was somehow anticipated by philosophers such as Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. Then, one might ask: could it ever have been possible to “discover” the unconscious out of Western discourse?