Phenomenologists define social impairments as key aspects of depression and argue that depression is irreducible to the individual. In this article I aim to further elaborate this non-reductionist notion of depression by claiming that depression not only corresponds to an impaired experience of social relations, but also arises from a socially impaired world. To pursue this goal, I will challenge the understanding of depression as an affective disorder blocking the affective communication between individual and environment. I will redefine feelings of depression as situated affections, and hence suggest that (1) they are products of the individual's situatedness in a depressogenic environment and (2) they function in initiating an active withdrawal from such environment.

现象学家将社会障碍定义为抑郁症的关键方面，并认为抑郁症对个人来说是不可还原的。在本文中，我旨在进一步阐述这种非还原论的抑郁症概念，声称抑郁症不仅对应于社会关系的受损体验，而且源于社会受损的世界。为了实现这个目标，我将挑战将抑郁症理解为一种阻碍个人与环境之间情感交流的情感障碍。我将把抑郁的感觉重新定义为情境情感，因此建议：（1）它们是个体在抑郁环境中所处情境的产物，（2）它们在开始主动退出这种环境中起作用。