Another concept closely linked to melancholy is that of depression: in its most elementary form, the depressed subject has severed his links with the universe of intentions and meanings, his embeddedness and active participation in intersubjective activity; as Heidegger would have put it, what ‘depression’ suspends is the attitude of active engagement, of care [sorge]. This link with Heidegger is further substantiated by the changed status of temporality: according to Heidegger, in ‘care’, past, present and future are interwoven (the subject’s present consists in the way he projects his future out of his being-thrown, through his past, into his determinate situation), while in depression, time is reduced to a uniform, monotonous duration.