The anus.
"You know," he said at last, "I wish you'd just look how that little dog's shithole opens up every time he barks."
A hole into which one defecates or dumps excrement.
Perhaps Derrida is recalling Rembrandt's drawing Abraham's Sacrifice. If this is the work of art, why "tear it to pieces" (dechirer) and ram it down the shithole? Is Abraham, father of the Jewish faith, a shit, perhaps the shit that the System proper must flush away?
Compound of shit + hole.
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