Professor David Scharff's lecture, “Fairbairn, Pichón Rivière, and the future of psychoanalysis in China” (2021) provoked me to think about the similarities between some of the theories of psychoanalysis and Confucianism, and on the basis of this similarity and connection, then to explain and apply this to a case study, and finally to point out a possible major direction for the future of psychoanalysis in China. It is by linking psychoanalysis with Confucianism, in a “transitional” way similar to the Confucian “Zhong Yong” in psychoanalytic therapy, that the relationship between the patient and the family and society is put back in a “good enough” link.