But even to call this reversal a metaleptic metonymy would be claiming to know more than one can about the radically discontinuous nature of this reversal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History] Reference

I think one of the insights of recent works on the philosophy of recognition (Patchen Markell, for instance) is that we only know who we are after the fact - self-fashioning through texts is part of the negotiation of our identity with other that we tell ourselves is proleptic but is ultimately always a construal of the past (metaleptic). permalink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Savage Minds] Reference