20170302_GLR CARDS E_BOOK

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