He denied jockeying for either administrative job — Mr. Filin's or Mr. Iksanov's — though he said he would accept such a post "if the wish arose on the part of the Ministry of Culture".
Burying a corpse upside-down was widespread, as was placing earthly objects, such as scythes or sickles, near the grave to satisfy any demons entering the body or to appease the dead so that it would not wish to arise from its coffin.
These wishes may arise and be violated not only in hospital, hospice or nursing home settings, but also in mental hospitals and prisons, where panoptic policies of monitoring and surveillance prevail (Bozovic 1995; Holmes and Federman 2006: 16–17; Foucault 1977).
But unlike dreams they need not betray a repressed infantile wish yet can arise from more immediate hostile, jealous, or egoistic causes.
This arises when one wishes to assess the individual importance of a series of factors, and/or to attempt to build a model that helps predict patient survival.
The most humorous of Ms. Ulitskaya's episodes arises from the ardent wish of Alik's wife, a faded beauty named Nina, to have her husband, a nonpracticing Jew, baptized.
In the Libet experiment (Libet 1985), participants were instructed to initiate a simple and predefined movement when the wish or urge to do so arises.
Our attentive presence is unconditional and open -- we are willing to be with whatever arises, even if we wish the pain would end or that we could be doing something else.
According to the World Health Organisation [ 3] ACDs are "a mechanism by which a competent individual expresses his or her wishes should circumstances arise in which he or she no longer is able to make rational and sound decisions regarding his or her medical treatment".
No doubt a wish fulfillment must bring pleasure; but the question then arises 'To whom?' To the person who has the wish, of course.
