In der Witz, Freud says, the psychic energy released is the energy that would have repressed the emotions that are being expressed as the person laughs.
And even though every new song or LP is a welcome treat, their upcoming release Psychic 9-5 Club stands apart as it's their first album since band member Sean Stewart passed away during the recording of their last full length Work (Work Work).
In laughing at this story, he says, we are releasing the psychic energy that we had summoned to feel pity for Twain's brother, but that became superfluous when we heard the fantastic last part.
In the simplest terms, when we laugh at a joke about (say) an undertaker, what causes our diaphragm to pulsate and chest to heave, he said, is the release of the psychic energy that would otherwise have been used to repress our anxiety about death that the joke expresses.
Last year, Atterbury was told by another prisoner, a Cambodian psychic, that they'd be released by the beginning of 2014.
That's not to say he hasn't been busy these last five years; in 2013 he released an album, Psychic, from his (currently defunct) Darkside project with Dave Harrington.
Earlier this year Melbourne duo HTRK released their third album Psychic 9-5 Club.
The only reason for psychic research is to be able to release earthbound spirits, who are all unhappy, according to Dr. Goldberg.
