In this chapter, I offer an in-depth interpretation of the relationship to power during the estallido. Interviews reveal that power is almost always attributed to the Other—especially in neoliberal academia—creating a paradox: despite the revolt’s political empowerment, subjects feel compelled to relinquish their power. Many participants hold objective signs of power, yet this power circulates in metonymic ways that render it psychically bearable. I argue that the fantasy of powerlessness imagines power as its own absence as a way of coping with misrecognition amid the revolt.