The best in my area

If I'm allowed to make the supposition that psychoanalysis is a part of the psychological area of knowledge to which I formally belong as a student being member of an institution which divides Knowledge into areas and calls "Psychology" to one of those areas (a supposition which goes against psychonalysis itself, since this discipline could be said to consists in the knowledge about the unconscious while Psychology is defined as the science of consciousness) then I would be obliged to say that Sigmund Freud is the best in my area.

First thing: contravening every philosophical and psychological tradition he defined the human subject, the psychical space, as a fundamentally unconscious one. A space composed of a knowledge which we don't know we know and which determines our very subjective position. Second thing, I would say (specially through the reading Lacan makes of him) he provides a theory that allows us, future psychologists, to think a clinical practice which does not consists of a mere normalization of patients, of their domestication by means and with regard to a socially shared norm, the arbitrariness of which is the signature of its functional value for the maintenance of the power relations that constitutes our very cotidianity (and ruins it).

And that's the best in my area, if I'm forced to put it that way