Le renard dans le nom (The Fox in the Name) by Richard Millet is a story about Pierre- Marie Lavolps, an ‘innocent' man who becomes the scapegoat of a rural community because he is suspected of having raped and murdered a girl. The magic of the name turns this tale into an excursion into the individual and social unconscious, where the reality of the beast and the symbols to express this reality are locked in a perpetual cycle.