DREAMS AND FREEDOM Memmi (2003 p.9) knew the colonizer and the colonized very well: “ Here is a confession I have never made before: I know the colonizer from the inside almost as well as I know the colonizad.” To make real changes into our reality we need to look within ourselves. The author recalled that psychoanalysis could be employed to distinguish roles of individuals that fit into the categories of colonizer or colonized and to explain their relation within the context of colonialism I will trace my confession back to December of 2012, I resigned from my secondary teacher position on 12/21/12, when the Mayan calendar was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle, a new era of good will began. T o summarize the reason why I resigned I will say that I lost hope. I faced the darkness of our time. I began dreaming, I thought that I could build a better sit...
