This is a study about resilience - the human capacity to face, to overcome and to gain strength through experiences of adversity - which aims to discuss the issue according to the views of Viktor Emil Frankl: (logotheory). Various concepts of resilience are described, as is the issue of risk factors and protective factors. There then follows a study on logotheory, highlighting the concepts which make resilience possible: the human being´s noetic dimension, man seen as a multiple unit, from which come strength of spirit and responsibility; the search for meaning as the primary motivation; self-transcendence; self-distancing - provided by humor and self-comprehension. In conclusion, resilience becomes one of the consequences of finding a meaning for life and moving towards its fulfillment, which makes it possible to say "yes" to life, despite everything.
Self-distancing; Self-transcendence; Motivation; Psychological; Resilience; Resistence