%0 Journal Article %T Uma an¨¢lise de artigos sobre resili¨ºncia a partir de uma leitura Kleiniana %A Benzoni %A Selma Aparecida Geraldo %A Varga %A Cassia Regina Rodrigues %J Psicologia em Estudo %D 2011 %I Universidade Estadual de Maring¨¢ %R 10.1590/S1413-73722011000300004 %X this article objective is to understand the unconscious mechanisms that operate in resilience enabling individuals to overcome adversity, finding these, creative ways to overcome them. this article aims to analyze the scientific productions carried out through research with humans, which deals with the psychological mechanisms that favor the process of resilience in the databases lilacs, medline, adolec, bdenf, paho and index psi from 1997 until 2007. the analysis of the article was performed using the technique of thematic content analysis in the light of kleinian#039;s assumptions. through this technique, we found two categories: reworking of the sense of pain or a wound, that showed integration capabilities of the loving and destructive elements and, believes in themselves and in others as a foundation in the process of identifying what is perceived in the other part of you. we can conjecture through the testimony described in the articles of people considered resilient that the two processes occur, each of which demonstrates different mechanisms in their occurrence. %K resilience %K psychic development %K good and bad object %K introjection and projection. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1413-73722011000300004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en