[Achon]

So the owner sabotages may years of time and effort, damaging relationships
along the way in a final act that would seem ultimately futile, in order to
'displace guilt' associated with an identity crisis?

Geez! Wouldn't it be easier to just accept his own words, rather than attempt
to conduct a psychoanalysis based on such meager information?

Didn't Freud allegedly say something like, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar?
I'm gonna go with the cigar conclusion here.