Luquet suggests that the dream has a different status of organization and a different level of organization from the primary process mechanisms which support it. Dreams seek to resolve object-relationship problems in a narcissistic mode, for example. This and other aspects of the dream, such as the role of censorship, lead us to question the old dualism of primary and secondary processes. The dream seems to belong to an intermediate psychical system between primary and secondary process, which Luquet would call "metaprimary." This system is constructed on the basis of preconscious functioning. The metaprimary mode of thought uses language, but indirectly and in its own peculiar fashion, markedly different from the secondary process role of thought and language.