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In Confessions, one of the most important works in Western literature, Augustine described his conversion to Roman Catholicism, providing the first known autobiography. In Confessions, Augustine argued for the importance of self-analysis by analyzing his history through an introspective and self-reflective psychological journey written directly to God. Symbolized by stepping back and looking at oneself, Augustine was one of the first Western scholars to describe and conceive of a sperate internal psychological self by changing the psychological locus of control from the outside to the inside.