In Good Standing

Using Jordan Peterson's Insights on the Structure of Self to Sort Yourself Out

De: Annette Poizner MSW Ed.D.

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The human self is not a formless cloud. It has an architecture. Jordan Peterson hints at it whenever he speaks of aim, alignment, responsibility, or the act of standing upright in a world that demands orientation. Even the English letter “I” gestures toward this structure. Look closely. At its core is a straight line.

In this book, author and counselor Annette Poizner explores the archetype of the line, showing how this quiet, ubiquitous form underlies the shape of reality itself. She reveals a three-stage pattern found everywhere: in myths and moral narratives, in physiological cycles and traffic signals, in engineering, language, and even in the small choreography of braiding hair. Across domains, a simple trinity repeats: beginning, middle, and end. Three points. One line. A hidden grammar of creation.

Drawing from the Hebrew Bible, classic sources, cultural commentary, and handwriting samples of public figures, Poizner illustrates how the linear archetype echoes through human expression. Each time we write, plan, build, or narrate our experience, we trace the quiet geometry that guides growth, identity, and direction. A straight line becomes a compass: a form that holds us up, pulls us forward, and shapes the story of who we become.

Readers interested in meaning, symbolism, and the architecture of the psyche will find in these pages a fresh framework that complements and extends themes in Jordan Peterson’s work. Poizner integrates insights from Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz and other thinkers, offering an engaging exploration of how perennial patterns can illuminate contemporary life.

“The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.”
C. G. Jung

About the Author
Annette Poizner, MSW, Ed.D., is a Toronto-based counselor, educator, and author whose work brings ancient wisdom traditions into dialogue with contemporary cultural voices. Drawing on decades of study in Jewish thought, classical sources, and traditional symbolic systems, she traces timeless patterns that have guided human understanding for millennia. In her writing, Poizner explores how modern thinkers such as Jordan Peterson have revived public interest in these perennial structures of meaning, offering a contemporary language for ideas long preserved in religious, philosophical, and mythic texts. Her innovations have been featured in newspapers across Canada, in North American trade publications, and at academic and clinical conferences.