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The author discusses the possible psychogenic factors in acute common colds. He psychoanalyzed a patient who, during the treatment, presented a series of common colds which turned out to be precipitated by the remobilization of a number of unconscious infantile conflicts. Hardoy arrived at the following conclusions:
1There is a close resemblance between the psychic factors which cause asthma, hay fever, and the common cold.
2The chief factor involved is a fear of loss of maternal love.
3In chronic or repeated rhinitis, there is an erotization of the sense of smell, the nasal organ, and of the respiratory function.
4This eroticism is the expression of a displacement upwards of an intense anal eroticism.
5The erotization facilitates infections producing the common cold.