Emotions such as fear and anger, or aggression, are forms of care which are future-directed but they are also fundamental to life, they precede the conceptual scheme of temporality, so that you could argue that time emerges out of these rather than that they emerge out of time. To be a concept bearing consciousness and to encounter fear, and aggression is to create a temporal binding which makes the self-structure possible, or indeed inevitable. backward looking emotions like guilt, shame, regret that seem to be equally fundamental to such a consciousness are nevertheless far mor complex constructions, out of time, and having little in common with life.