20172102_GLR CARDS E_BOOK
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GOAL OF THE <strong>CARDS</strong> AND<br />
PRESENTATION OF THE AUTHOR<br />
The set would be composed of a deck of the 39 <strong>GLR</strong> cards and of the book of their<br />
hermeneutics. It aims at revealing one’s personality as a whole. The <strong>GLR</strong> cards can<br />
lead the readers towards the parts of themselves that might be left behind because<br />
of life or because of one’s own self-saboteur. Lacanians and Freudians would say<br />
that this person in us has to do with our polymorphous superego. By fear, by<br />
shyness, or by caution, the parts of personality in question are not revealed to<br />
oneself. The result is viable, yet the person is not a whole being. Do you remember<br />
the last time you had an artistic shock? At that moment, you killed the self-saboteur,<br />
thus gaining free access to your soul. That was one decisive step towards your whole<br />
being. Humanistic psychology’s goal is to reach that wholeness. Jungians call this<br />
journey individuation. Letus walk together with the <strong>GLR</strong> cards.<br />
My name is Nathalie Pilard. I am a scholar in Religious<br />
Studies. I am expert in Psychology and Religion, which I<br />
teach, and in the history of Esotericism. My latest book is<br />
Jung and Intuition. Despite my lifelong interest in cards, I<br />
became a specialist of Tarot cards by chance. As I was<br />
working on my PhD, I had the occasion to give a paper in<br />
one of the Vatican museums. Having been raised as a<br />
Catholic, this meant much to me. I decided to write a paper<br />
on ... the Popess. Each woman is the feminist that she has<br />
the opportunity to be. The Popess is one trump card of a<br />
Tarot deck. I soon discovered that my figurative collages<br />
represented trump cards.<br />
My name as a visual artist is Giselle Lila-René, <strong>GLR</strong> is my signature. I am French.<br />
I started making figurative collages in France as I decided to go back to university.<br />
My two activities, intellectual and artistic, are inseparable. It took me a long time<br />
to understand and accept it because Giselle is sheer intuition and absolutely free.<br />
My academic research led me to the UK, in beautiful Scotland. Once there,<br />
because I changed language, my collages became abstract. Back in France, black<br />
and white oil pastels expressed my soul in symbols, then came colour and finally<br />
painting.<br />
I have a secret name, aptly used as electronic password. That which this name<br />
stands for I will not tell, but it is part of me, of my past and perhaps of my future.<br />
On my (unfinished) journey to my whole being, I have had to put names on the<br />
various living parts that animated my soul and life. Nobody has to do that. But we<br />
all have several parts of our selves, just like we have several first names, nick<br />
names, spouse names, etc. I believe that gaining awareness of the various parts of<br />
one’s personality is a chance notto be missed.<br />
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