The Force definitely wasn't with a course offering a Freudian analysis of Star Wars this month.
'Everything You Wanted To Know About Star Wars But Were Afraid To Ask' had been set for lift-off at HKU Space but failed to attract enough students.
The course, the brain child of Jean-Michel Sourd, head of French at Diocesan Boys' School, was to have analysed hidden themes in the George Lucas blockbuster.
It has now been rescheduled to run next month if there is enough interest.
Mr Sourd first took a Freudian approach to the film's themes after the release of Return of the Jedi, publishing an article in the French fanzine Notebooks: New Horizons in 1983. 'At the end of the saga last year I thought I should reopen the file,' he said. 'I have always been fascinated by the film's huge success, which definitely wasn't just because of its special effects.'
Mr Sourd said there were many sequences in the film that benefited from a Freudian analysis, including one where Luke Skywalker is seen going into a cave where he fights someone wearing the mask of Darth Vader, who turns out to be his father in the story, but has his own face under the mask in this scene. He said this classic father-son conflict symbolised Lucas's problems with authority.