frazer, n.All

Frazer (n.) saw ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in the scapegoat phenomenon an ignorant superstition that positivism removed, and in Christianity its ultimate triumph.

Frazer (n.) took ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the scapegoat as a ritual theme from Leviticus, burying ethnology under motif and hiding the older sense: the unconscious mechanism of persecution.