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The aim is to show the disintegration of a personality by analyzing the fragment of “Confession” by St Augustine. It allows us to come from the phenomenological description of personality transformation process to means of psychological defense. By solving the questions of love St Augustine uses hidden rhetorical constructions, which reflect his emotional processes in the most adequate way. They should be analyzed and clarified. The psychological aspect of this transformation can be reconstructed from that part of “Confession” where Augustine describes his Carthage impressions. He suffers psychological chaos: he “ran into love”, “loving love”. Augustine finally summarizes these impressions by saying “I loved not yet, yet I loved to love”. So, “I love you” is normal expression. By strengthening the predicate we come to formula “I love love you”. But these two phrases are totally different, because the hidden meaning of the second one is denying the first one. If we continue to strengthen it we come to formula “I love, love, love…” and it is what Augustine meant by saying “I loved to love”, thesis becomes antithesis and that is the circle – F(f). Wittgenstein wrote in “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”(in German 1921, in English 1922; revised 1933, 1961): “3.333. A function cannot be its own argument, because the functional sign already contains the prototype of its own argument and it cannot contain itself” – F(f). This thesis was discussed in detail by H. Mounce (1981), V. Rudnev (2005), M. Morris (2008). In “Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics” (1942) Wittgenstein returns to this topic. For the description of this contradiction Wittgenstein proposes a kind of function: ”F(F), where F(ξ) = – ξ(ξ)”. It is “a shimmering concept”. Contradiction is part of logical symbolism, but topologically, the figures of contradictions, which use Augustine and Wittgenstein are different. They describe a variety of psychological processes.