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The rhetoric of love in St. Augustine’s “Confessions” and the hermeneutics of fragments in C. Jung’s “VISIONS” Abstract Aims: to create an analysis model for the functional structures of dream images, the logic of events and transformations. Method: a functional-typological and logical analysis. Results: the development of means for psychotherapeutic analysis. Conclusions: the application of functional typology to dream images allows us to follow the logic of event lines, the transformation of the functional structure of the images, to determine the conditions of “contact” between the analysand and autonomous figures, which is the starting moment in the integration of the unconscious content. The creation of autonomised structures should be attributed to the defense mechanisms of the psyche. Key words: dream, structure, transformation. The article focuses on the subject of love in introspective and deep analysis. The analysis of rhetorical figures in St. Augustine’s “Confessions” shows that in introspection he singles out the logic, rhetoric and relationship dynamics in love, bringing it to infernal sensations. St. Augustine describes the “chaos” of psychological states, when he “fell headlong then into the love wherein [he] longed to be ensnared”, “in love with loving”, which he sums up with a rhetorical, containing a contradiction, paradox: “I loved not yet, yet I loved to love”. The functional description of these experiences includes the function which is the proper argument of F(fx), which leads to (fx)→F (fx)→F (F (fx))→⋯ For the description of this contradiction Wittgenstein proposes a kind of “transcendental function”: F(F), where F(ξ) = – ξ(ξ) – “a shimmering concept”. In “VISIONS”, Jung establishes the functional model of the psychological type of a patient in love “Th – F” (Th – Thinking, F – Feeling, S – Sensation, I – Intuition), but he does not apply a functional analysis to the autonomous figures of dreams. In the first dream a musician appears, showing that the patient “loves love itself” – “the music of emotions”. The functional structure of the figure – “FSThI”. In a series of visions (I – X), the figure of the unconscious appears as an Indian with the functional type of a hunter “SThIF”, which then transforms structurally, assuming the form “FSThI”. The form mirrors the structure of the analysand’s psyche and makes the “contact” possible.