La figura del fantasma a propósito de la última dictadura en Argentina. Sobre “El ahorcado”de Mariana Enriquez

This article aims to analyze the ghost figure in the short story “El ahorcado” (2016) by Mariana Enriquez. Besides, the article analyses the fantasy in the sense in which defines it Jacques Lacan, as a fictional version of the production of ghosts (missing persons, the so call desaparecidos) by the latest dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). The methodology consists of textual and discoursive study, by the selection of rhetoric resources, language procedures, and discoursive strategies which refer to two levels: the singular content of the story and the general context of the dictatorship, through the poetic of stray and metonymy from the text to the context. The horror genre with fantastic gender is privileged to tell the story of state terrorism.