When writing about the Wolf Man Freud theorized that little Sergei went forward in time and re-interpreted his dream. At age one and a half years he had been impressed by the actions of his parents performing coitus a tergo. I offer what little that I could recall of my lived experiences in my shower one morning several months ago. I submit that we all are within a camera obscura. One can also see how one's interaction with one's environment can be influenced by one's home movies.
Therapeutic action is done by means of recognition scenes.
Lacan gave his famous lecture in Rome in 1953. Stanley Leavy, Arnold Modell and the Nobel prize winning neuroscientist, Gerald Edelman have helped to call attention to this concept in the United States. For Edelman, memory is a performance of re-categorizations. In the case of Dr. Deed one can see, I believe, the proleptic jump forward in time as Deed, the twelve year old wrote the story of his experiences when, at the crossroads, his mother was struck by an automobile. He brought a re-categorized story to his experience with the bus accident.