Rodolfo Piskorski is University Teacher in English Literature and Portuguese Tutor at Cardiff University, UK, from which he has a PhD in Critical and Cultural Theory.

1. Introduction.- 2. Animal as Text, Text as Animal: On the Matter of Textuality.- 3. The Arche-Animal: Totemic Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis.- 4. The Thought-Fox: The Poetics of Animal Form.- 5. Transcending Signs: Becoming-Animal in Black Swan.- 6. Animal Supplementarity in Lispector's The Apple in the Dark.