Frieda is trying to reconcile the things she believes in with the things she knows to be true. Each chapter of the book, though, shows a different failed attempt of hers to take on some sort of faith--faith in the power of her own physical beauty, power of art, power of love, duty, religion--finally just the power of existence. Each time, she immediately tests her new faith, and hits its limit, hence breaking one more enclosure for her spirit. Each smashed faith is like a box that breaks open, leaving her in a larger one, in which she then sinks her faith, only to then furiously test it in turn.
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