What is light signifying in this painting by Albrecht Dürer on "melancholic depression"?

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What is light signifying in this painting by Albrecht Dürer on "melancholic depression"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%BCrer_Melancholia_I.jpg

The woman in this painting who is suffering from this depression seems to possessed all the great things and qualities... yet she is unhappy because of something represented by an evil insane infant spirit... as they believed during the time. So what was Albrecht Dürer or your view on the light that she is ignoring? What is that someone who is blessed with amazing things ignores and stay in the condition of depression?
 
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